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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
64,157 approved · 8,972 refused · 5,931 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 1998 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Stitchings Shord Farm , Stitchings Shord Lane, Bishop Sutton, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 5UD
Received 23 Jun 2023Garden Flat, 14 New King Street, Kingsmead, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2BL
Received 23 Jun 2023Greenbank , Park Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 2XP
Received 23 Jun 2023Land Between 16 And Bypass, London Road West, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 23 Jun 2023Bell Farm , Hunstrete Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HU
Received 23 Jun 2023Avondale Garage , High Street, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7DW
Received 23 Jun 202319 Lymore Gardens, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1AQ
Received 23 Jun 2023Northgate House, Upper Borough Walls, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1RG
Received 23 Jun 20236 Cambridge Terrace, Widcombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6BE
Received 23 Jun 202386 Gloucester Road, Lower Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7AX
Received 23 Jun 20237 Duke Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4AG
Received 23 Jun 202364 Newbridge Hill, Newbridge, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3PU
Received 26 Jun 2023Bathwick House, Bathwick Street, Bathwick, Bath, BA2 6NX
Received 26 Jun 202318 Carpenters Way, Westfield, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 4XL
Received 26 Jun 2023Freshford Hall , Staples Hill, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7WJ
Received 26 Jun 202336 Northend, Batheaston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 7ES
Received 26 Jun 2023Top Flat, 21 Henrietta Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 6LP
Received 26 Jun 2023The Cork, 11 - 12 Westgate Buildings, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1EB
Received 26 Jun 202319 East Close, Whiteway, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 1QD
Received 26 Jun 202340 Gainsborough Gardens, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 4AJ
Received 26 Jun 202320 Ashley Avenue, Lower Weston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 3DS
Received 26 Jun 2023Flat 1, 80 Lower Oldfield Park, Oldfield Park, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3HP
Received 26 Jun 202312 Entry Hill, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5LY
Received 26 Jun 2023Woodborough Farmhouse, Woodborough Hill, Peasedown St John, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8LN
Received 26 Jun 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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